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The corpus record — Latin

labium

labium

lip

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Where it lives

  • De Testimionio Animae 1 · 4.47/10k
  • Adversus Judaeos Liber 4 · 3.56/10k
  • De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
  • De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
  • Epistulae. Selections. 9 · 2.06/10k
  • Adversus Marcionem 13 · 1.57/10k
  • Metamorphoses 6 · 1.12/10k
  • Eunuchus 1 · 0.92/10k
  • Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
  • Miles Gloriosus 1 · 0.79/10k
  • Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
  • Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k

What it meant

1. labium — de Vaan

labium 'lip' [n. o] (PL+; mostly pi. labia) Derivatives: labia I labea 'lip' (PL+), labedsus 'thick-lipped' (Lucr.); labrum 'lip, brim' (Naev.+), labellum 'lip' (P1.+), collabellare 'to make by putting lips together' (Lab.). Pit. *labjo-7 *labro-~ IE cognates: OE OFr. lippa 'lip' < PGm. *lepjan-, OLFr. lepor, OFr. lepur 'lip', OHG lefs < P G m *lep-e/os-. Less certain: Gr. *lob- in λοβός [ m j 'lobe, lap, slip', … — [de Vaan, s.v. labium, p. 333]

2. lăbĭum — Lewis & Short

lăbĭum, ii, v. labia.

3. labium — Walde–Hofmann

labium (/abeum). -i n. (meist Plur.), vulg. bzw. dial. abiae, -àrum (nach genae?, Schmalz* 368) u. -a, -ae f. „Lippe; Rand* (seit Plaut., rom.; labeö, -ónis „dicke Lippen habend“ (seit Gramm. und Arnob., Cogn. seit Rhet. Her. [vgl. frontö, näsö und ch:ó S. 215], labeosus ds. Lucr.), Zabrum, -i n. (meist Plur.; vulg. oder dial. Zabrae, vgl. labiae) Lippe; Rand“ (seit Naev., rom. [mehr schriftsprachl., Döderlein Syn. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. labium, p. 770]

In the wild

6 of 40 attestations shown.

Where it came from

  • de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. labium (scan p. 333; entry #853). Root candidates: *lepjan-, *lob-, *lab-.
  • Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. labium (scan pp. 770-771; entry #1460). Root candidates: *lepjan-, *lepan-, *lepes-.

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